Opened 10 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#45217 closed defect (fixed)
crafty - update license
Reported by: | kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg) | Owned by: | kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg) |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | 2.3.1 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
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Description
Ticket to try to resolve what license crafty is under. What's the correct license in macports?
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//non-free/c/crafty/crafty_23.4-6_copyright
Debian has received written permission in the form of an e-mail from Professor Hyatt: Robert M. Hyatt wrote: > > you have my permission to distribute this code just as you did > before. I am only trying to stop people from copying the source > and then calling it their own and entering it into chess tournamennts, > something that has now happened at least 3 times... > > Bob > > Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences > hyatt@cis.uab.edu University of Alabama at Birmingham > (205) 934-2213 115A Campbell Hall, UAB Station > (205) 934-5473 FAX Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 On Thu 14. Mai 22:13:48 CEST 2009 autobuilding was requested by Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de> of nonfree@release.debian.net, this is the mail snippet: ... I would like to request autobuilding crafty. The licence is strictly non-free, but we have the explicit written permission to redistribute of the upstream author. I have had contact with him recently and am convinced that the reason for making it non-free, is the code abuse in computer chess tournaments as mentioned in the copyright file. We also do not alter craftys name or copyright notice, so everything that matters to the upstream author stays intact. Autobuilding does not interfere with that.
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by kurthindenburg (Kurt Hindenburg)
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | new → closed |
r147093 I haven't bothered asking the author for an exception like Debian received.
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The copyright file says that you may not distribute the software without getting the author’s permission. The above quote says Debian has done that. We have not (yet). If we were to get permission for MacPorts to distribute it,
Restrictive/Distributable
would be the most appropriate license value. It sounds like our users would have to get their own permission if they wish to redistribute.